The Department of Public Services (DPS) is seeking a P238.2 million budget for garbage services next year or double its current figure to afford a new scheme of outsourcing services of waste collection and diposal in Cebu…
City official says 2 bio-waste firms ‘could not cope’ with trash volume Cebu City will continue clearing a one-hectare area near Pond A in the South Road Properties (SRP) for a composting site instead of using two…
Why is Cebu City Hall clamoring for more budget for garbage disposal when existing waste processing facilities haven’t been operating in full capacity? This was asked by some city councilors during an executive session yesterday on the…
CEBU City Mayor Michael Rama is eyeing an area of more than one hectare near Pond A in the South Road Properties (SRP) as a temporary site for composting biodegradable waste. “I will request Filinvest and SM,…
A City Hall official said the increased volume of garbage in Cebu City shows “more efficiency of collection”, not failure of the city’s solid waste management program. Since September, no city funds have been spent for garbage…
The volume of garbage collected in Cebu City has almost doubled in past months, an official said. Cebu City Councilor Nida Cabrera said she has “lost my title as queen of garbage” (rayna sa basura)” with the…
One of the items included in that much-talked-about (at least in Cebu City) Supplemental Budget 1 (SB1) was the funds that will be used by the city government to pay the private haulers of garbage and…
Cebu City Hall trash budget ran out in August; How long will fresh funds take? Since August, City Hall has not released funds for garbage disposal services in Cebu City. The budget is exhausted, said officials. This…
The University of Southern Philippines Foundation has been charged for dumping garbage in a vacant private lot in Compostela town, northern Cebu. Compostela police filed a complaint for violation of Republic Act No. 9003 (Ecological Solid Waste…
When Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama first disclosed through his point man lawyer Jade Ponce his plan to convert the former Inayawan landfill site into a mixed-use development project, not a few came away admitting that his…
Cebu City Hall will ask the management of the private landfill in Consolacion town and the private haulers operating a garbage transfer station in the city’s southern barangays to continue receiving the city’s garbage even without payment.…
Osmeña says guidelines on unspent funds have not been followed Cebu City officials are scrambling for ways to continue trucking garbage to a private sanitary landfill in Consolacion town. The Cebu City Council again set aside a…
